Two Tucson nurseries that rock—and rain!
I’m happy to report that the two Tucson nurseries I visited today more than made up for the largely disappointing experience I had in Phoenix yesterday. That means I’m ending 2014 on a high note as far as plants go! Picacho Peak 45 miles north of Tucson right off I-10 Stop #1 was at Bach’s Cactus Nursery (8602 North Thornydale Rd., Tucson, AZ 85742; 520-744-3333). I’d first visited it on my December 2013 trip on what had been a warm and sunny day. Today the weather was quite different. It had been raining early in the morning when I’d left Phoenix, and while the storm hadn’t quite made it to Tucson yet (about 120 miles to the south), the sky was looking quite menacing. Everywhere I went on the nursery grounds I saw scenes like these: